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Data and codes for the ACL 2021 paper: Towards Emotional Support Dialog Systems
If you use our codes or your research is related to our paper, please kindly cite our paper:
@inproceedings{liu-etal-2021-towards,
title={Towards Emotional Support Dialog Systems},
author={Liu, Siyang and
Zheng, Chujie and
Demasi, Orianna and
Sabour, Sahand and
Li, Yu and
Yu, Zhou and
Jiang, Yong and
Huang, Minlie},
booktitle={ACL},
year={2021}
}The corpus file is ESConv.json. We have collected more conversations with more problem topics. ESConv now contains 1,300 conversations with 10 topic problems.
| Problem Category | ongoing depression | breakup with partner | job crisis | problems with friends | academic pressure | procras- tination* |
alcohol abuse* | issues with parent* | sleep problems* | appearance anxiety* | school bullying* | issues with children* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | 351 | 239 | 280 | 179 | 156 | 13 | 12 | 18 | 28 | 12 | 2 | 10 |
* denotes the new topics added during the second collection. We hope new data supports the future research in transferring the ability of models from old topics to new ones.
| Strategy Category | Number |
|---|---|
| Questions | 3801(20.7%) |
| Self-disclosure | 1713(9.3%) |
| Affirmation and Reassurance | 2827(15.4%) |
| Providing Suggestions | 2954(16.1%) |
| Other | 3661(18.3%) / 3341(18.2%) |
| Reflection of feelings | 1436(7.8%) |
| Information | 1215(6.6%) |
| Restatement or Paraphrasing | 1089(5.9%) |
We provide two versions of model implementation:
codesis the version that we used in the original experimentscodes_zcjis the version reproduced by @chujiezheng
